Jorge Buxadé Villalba (Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe βuɣsaˈðe], Catalan: [- βuʃəˈðe]; born 16 June 1975) is a Spanish lawyer and right-wing politician who was elected as a member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European Parliament election in Spain,[1] and has been spokesperson for the right-wing Vox party since February 2020.[2] He previously worked for the centre-right People's Party between 2004 and 2014. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1995 Catalan regional election as a member of the far-right Falange Española de las JONS, and he was number 8 in the Falange Española Auténtica list for Barcelona for the 1996 Spanish general election.[3]
Jorge Buxadé | |
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 Jorge Buxadé in 2024 | |
| Co-chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists Head of the Vox Delegation to the European Parliament | |
| In office 11 December 2019 – 5 July 2024 | |
| President | Giorgia Meloni |
| Serving alongside | Ryszard Legutko |
| Member of European Parliament for Spain | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jorge Buxadé Villalba 16 June 1975 Barcelona, Spain |
| Political party | Vox (2014–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Falange Española de las JONS (1995) Falange Española Auténtica (1996) PP (2004–2014) |
| Alma mater | Abat Oliba CEU University |
| Occupation | Lawyer • Politician |
| Awards | Order of Saint Raymond of Peñafort Hungarian Order of Merit |
| Website | www |
Biography
editBorn in Barcelona on 16 June 1975,[4] Buxadé is graduated with a law degree from Abat Oliba CEU University.[5][4] He entered the State Lawyers Corps in 2003.[6]
He was the president of the Foro Catalán de la Familia, a conservative organization.[3] He regularly writes for his own blog Lo antiguo es lo nuevo. He is opposed to Catalan independence and is a member and cofounder of anti-secessionist organizations like Societat Civil Catalana and Fundación Joan Boscà.[7][8]
Political career
editBuxadé was appointed as the second vice-president of Vox in March 2020, and remained in that position until January 2024.[6]
Buxadé is a member of the Madrid Forum, an international alliance organized by Vox that comprises right-wing and far-right individuals.[9]
He was awarded the Order of Saint Raymond of Peñafort, first class.[4] In November 2023, he was awarded with the Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit by the Viktor Orbán government.[10]
Political positions
editJorge Buxadé Villalba is a self-confessed admirer of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Spanish Falange. In September 2012, he described José Antonio and Ernesto Giménez Caballero, one of the ideologues of fascism in Spain, as "two superior souls". In the same article, published on his blog, he condemns the 1978 Constitution, adopted after the end of the Franco regime.[11] He has also been directly linked with the far-right blog Dolça Catalunya, that contains anti-Catalanist, ultra-Catholic and discriminatory, mockery articles.[8][12]
In a 2019 interview, he said that he regrets his former People's Party (PP) militancy, but that he doesn't regret having been a Falange militant.[13]
Buxadé has been identified as the head of an "anti-globalist" faction in Vox,[14][15] that would be opposed to the "liberal faction" represented by more moderate party members such as Victor Sánchez del Real.[14][16]
References
edit- ^ "Lista de los 54 eurodiputados elegidos este domingo en España". La Vanguardia. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
- ^ Buxadé gana peso en Vox y será el portavoz en la nueva estrategia de comunicación Published by ABC on 22 February 2020 and retrieved the same day (in Spanish)
- ^ a b González, Miguel (10 May 2019). "Jorge Buxadé Villalba: un falangista en el Parlamento Europeo". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ a b c "Jorge Buxadé Villalba – Curriculum vitae". www.europarl.europa.eu. European Parliament. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- ^ "Top 21 de 30". www.merca2.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- ^ a b "Quién es Jorge Buxadé, el candidato de Vox en las elecciones europeas". Diario ABC (in Spanish). 9 June 2024. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ Mateos, Roger (9 September 2014). "Un excandidat falangista fa equip amb Societat Civil Catalana". Ara.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ a b Borràs i Abelló 2015, p. 80-81.
- ^ "Carta de Madrid". Fundación Disenso (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 December 2021.
- ^ Benito, Agustín (18 November 2023). "Jorge Buxadé, condecorado con la Cruz de la Orden del Mérito de Hungría". LA GACETA (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ González, Miguel (10 May 2019). "Jorge Buxadé Villalba: Un falangista en el Parlamento Europeo". El País. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019.
- ^ Salvador, Xavier (8 September 2019). "Los nombres clave de 'Dolça Catalunya'" (in Spanish). Crónica Global. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ "Jorge Buxadé: "Me arrepiento de haber estado en el PP, no en Falange"" (in Spanish). El Mundo. 23 May 2019.
- ^ a b "Vox y la deriva Buxadé". www.elsaltodiario.com. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ "Vox y el último paso de la deriva Buxadé". www.elsaltodiario.com. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ Calleja, Ana Belén Ramos;Ignacio S. (12 August 2023). "Jorge Buxadé, la mano 'dura' que mece la estrategia de Vox". elconfidencial.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 November 2024.
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Bibliography
edit- Borràs i Abelló, Jordi (2015). Desmuntant Societat Civil Catalana (in Catalan). Edicions Saldonar. ISBN 9788494675355.
External links
edit- Official website: Lo antiguo es lo nuevo. jorgebuxade.wordpress.com.
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